LECTURE: Illicit Antiquities: A scandal of our age
2:30 pm, Saturday, 19 December, 2009

An illustrated lecture by Dr Christopher Chippindale, Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

The world's great museums continue to unveil and show off ravishing new antiquities, especially from the Classical world. Where do these treasures come from? In a growing scandal, it becomes increasingly clear these are not forgotten curios, excavated long ago and recently gathering dust in the attics of Swiss bankers, but new finds recently looted and illicitly exported from their countries of origin. Why? How?

And what will be the consequences?

Dr Christopher Chippindale, one of the Society’s Trustees, is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a pioneering researcher in this troubling field.

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